Late Tata, who hailed from Oku in Bui Division, and who died several years ago, was appointed at the 3rd CPDM Ordinary Congress, which took place at the Yaounde International Conference Centre. He was supposed to be a member of the now 350-member Central Committee, which, hitherto, comprised 250 members, some of whom, like Tata Mforme, died before the Congress.

In fine, the announced October 9 presidential elections in the Cameroons will be just one more manner of spreading porcine corrupt practices around and about.
The Biya regime is enticing equally corrupt politicians with a cash-handout, or bait, of 25.000.000FCFA from the state coffers to present a challenge to his candidacy.
There are now 23 candidates now running. Each candidate pays in 5.000.000FCFA to the state treasury.
All the candidates have to do is rush to the nearing bank, microfinance hourse, credit union or whatever and demand a short term loan of 5.000.000FCFA.
They they collect 25.000.000 from the state; payback their short-term loan and report a profit of at least 15.000.000.
For less than three weeks of work.
Small wonder Cameroon has several times been voted most corrupt country on earth.
With Mr. Paul Biya presiding.
<a href="http://

Get More Customers, Get More Revenue!!!

With no constant current of shoppers you cannot have reliable everyday income. You cannot get income if no one visits your website. You need shoppers to see your products, every day, 24 hours! Our company helps more than 30,000 customers get more visitors online. You can increase your income by receiving hundreds of real interested visitors to see your website.“>

Mr. Yembe Martin Fon was arrested this morning, September 19, 2011 at the
Bamenda Commercial Avenue on allegations that he was distributing publicity
materials aimed at mobilizing and sensitizing Southern Cameroonians to be in
Buea come October 1, 2011. Martin Yembe had just finished distributing some
copies of the Political Punch which carried very shouting publicity
captioned ” All Roads Lead to Buea … October 1, 2011…Southern Cameroons
D-Day. To Commemorate 50 years of the frozen independence of Southern
Cameroons…..BE THERE!.
It will appear Mr. Yembe had completed his task and was addressing some
political leaders, especially the North West Coordinator for Hon. Paul Ayah,
Mr. Caspa Frankline. Yembe had been carrying out a Vox Pop along the
Commercial Avenue as to what the people in Bamenda were preparing for ”
October 1 in Buea” or ” October 9 Presidential Elections”?
It was then that this police agent from GMI, one Magaji Ernest ( Inspector)
held Yembe down, assisted by four others. A few minutes after Yembe had
taken up lecturing the crowd and the police how it was President Biya
himself who had addressed the nation on December 31 that October 1 will be
celebrated ( commemorated). Yembe brandished a copy of the Cameroon Tribune
of Lundi 03 2011, with the Head of State’s Speech harping on the British
trusteeship of Southern Cameroons having her independence and joining the
already independent La Republique du Cameroun.
Yembe further questioned the officers whther they have arrested Mbella Moki
Charles, the CPDM Mayor of Buea who has been talking of the preparedness of
Buea for the event come October 1. Being dumbfounded and realizing that they
had met a very tough force, the Police Inspector and a few gendarmes who had
gathered there to check the steaming crowd called the Commissioner of the
GMI.
Meantime, lectures continued. Ni John Fru Ndi of SDF called Hon. Ayah’s
coordinator whose phone was on then and told Yembe and Caspa not to move
from there until he arrived. So, Yembe took the time in giving out lectures
to the crows that never stopped cheering aand concurring that they will all
be in Buea. The police men were visibly embarrased and humiliated until
their Commissioner arrived. At that point, Yembe and PAP coordinator were
walked to the waiting taxi and , helmed on both sides by police men, were
whisked off to the GMI Police station.
At the GMI, there were stories that Yembe is SCNC, trying to stir people to
destabilize the forth0coming elections, while there were slangs thrown on
Hon Paul Ayah’s man. The two refused speaking for three hours, and were
transferred to the Police Central Station at Old Town Bamenda where a lot of
ping pong took place from one office to the other. Even Hon Ayah’s Lawyer
that was sent, Amazzee who came in, abandoned the two when he saw Yembe with
their man and the handouts advertising the Buea event!!
When Yembe Martin and CAspa Frankline finally accepted to write their
statements, they insisted that they will leave the police station only after
seeing the Governor and asking him whether (1) It was illegal for a
Presidential Candidate’s representative to talk to a journalist, even on
Southern Cameroons issue and (2) whether it is a taboo to discuss Buea
October 1 which was decreed by President Paul Biya himself. At this
juncture, both put down their statements, with Yembe’s emphasizing on the
fact that as a journalist and a human rights reporter, he had the right and
was excited to find out from people their feelings about Buea 2011.
Surprisingly, after the statements, and being taken back into the detention
room, the Commissioner himself, Sone John Ewang ( Senior Sperintendant of
Police …Six stars) invited the two into his office just when Mr. Nwacham
Thomas ( a member of the Patriotic Coalition Front) came in, ready to
release them on bail).
After some very apologetic remarks, the Commissioner asked the two to leave
without any bail. Caspa and Yembe both took the opportunity to share the
meaning of elections, on the one hand, and the |October 1, 2011 events on
the other hand. Nwacham who had procured the bail forms was so hot that he
started declaring there that Yembe’s case was child’s play as he was going
to engage in very serious publicity on the event, brandishing a copy of the
Cameroon Tribune with the Speeech of Paul Biya on the October 1, 2011
celebrations.
It should be noted that Yembe and Caspa spent seven hours in detention and
there was high tension in the streets of Bamenda. His release calmed tension
as he proceeded to the same spot at Commercial Avenue to quell the furious
crowd that was already growing impatient. Yembe and Caspa were not tortured.
By Fonba Bondi Lyzor in Bamenda

Limitations of Change. 1. Credible Opposition 2. Credible Leadership 3. The absence of proper diagnosis and a minimal achievable goal. 4. The absence of unity. 5. Appropriate Strategies. 6. Finances. 7 The absence of timing and a sense of urgency 8. The absence of commitment, broad participation and representation. The rainbow coalition must be as broad as possible accommodating all factions of the population and their interests. 8. The absence of strategic planning. 9. The Absence of non-violent discipline. 10. The absence of creative thinking. 11. Fear and the lack of confidence.
ADVERTORIAL
FOLLOW THE LINK. DOUBLE CLICK ON IThttp://www.virtapay.com/r/ntemfacofege
Digital Delivery Project

Basic. The prime duty of government is to provide services. Whenever government fails to provide services, the citizenry resorts to all manner of ways including criticisms on radio and in newspapers, uprisings and coup d’états to abrogated predatory and failed governments.

Basic. The gramophone. Described as a willful artifact capable of producing sound of often dubious quality. A trademark of the gramophone: His Master’s voice. Whenever the pin of the gramophone got stuck, the instrument produced plenty of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The production of plenty of sound and fury is called noise. Cameroon’s current Minister of Communications, the esteemed Issa Tchiroma Bakary sounds like the final gramophone.

Basic. Talibanization should be defined as this extreme state wherein those who rule make believe that their point of view is the absolute. Talibans prescribe death to refuseniks who do not subscribe to their skewed rhetoric. Under the pretext that such deviants are perturbing public order. Off with their heads. Death to radio stations, for example.

Cameroun came very close to being a Taliban state when Ahmadou Ahidjo lorded it in these parts. Issa Babary Tchiroma, Cameroon’s new Minister of Communications is a pure product of the Ahmadou Ahidjo School of dictatorship, high-handedness and vile tyranny. Since he became Communications minister some months ago, Issa Bakary Tchiroma’s pronouncements lead many to dread the return of Ahmadou Ahidjo and the talibanization of communications in Cameroon. Proof, of that? The man has just shut down Sky One radio.

One of the conditionalities for creating a private radio and tv station in Cameroon is that ALL programmes of the radio and tv must be approved by the Ministry of Communications. Did the Ministry approve or did it fail to approve the Sky one programme, Le Tribunal? Who failed to provide vital services and who is today blaming the victims?

Accusing Sky one of not respecting professional norms and of defaming some Cameroonians is disingenuous – giving a dog a bad name. This is lynching. This is abuse of power. The Minister is not qualified to adjudicate on journalism. His Chief of Judicial Affairs is not qualified to adjudge on defamation. Only the courts can rule on defamation.

In pure democratic tradition, the Union of Journalists, UJC should have been consulted before the extreme closure of Sky one. What if for the sake of solidarity all radio stations in Cameroon create programmes similar to Le Tribune du Peuple?

I have explored the format of the Sky one programme. This is another case of the people versus government. Had the Sky one journalists gone into investigating and interpreting the facts as brought to them by the public, the programme would have had more teeth. What is so wrong with having a Judge Judy format on radio?

Last June, a catholic cum French outfit published a document stating that Mr. Paul Biya may have swiped some 46 billion FCFA from the commonwealth. Ever the Machiavellian, Mr. Biya moved fast to shuffle his cabinet, distract attention from the publication and make people like Issa Bakary Tchiroma minister.

Now Issa Tchiroma can be described as a political prostitute. He was UNDP yesterday, He was ANDP, then he was SDF (Sans Domicile Fixe) and today he is the spokesman of the CPDM government! This minister hails from a culture not only associated with talibanism but also associated with griotism. That is why the man makes the perfect town-crier for Mr. Biya. It is Mr. Tchiroma’s legitimate right to go on all fours behind Mr. Biya, but it is also the right of Cameroonians to refuse that route. Only a Taliban would think differently.

Even time he has operated his routine electoral coup and has been sworn in as president, Mr. Biya has sworn to uphold the constitution. Article 66 of that constitution says, some public officials must declare their assets. Cameroon’s existing law on stealing public money prescribes LIFE JAIL for anyone who so much as swipe, misappropriate, or sidetrack only 500.000FCFA. Name one public official, from the District officer to the president, who has not distraire 500.000FCFA? Dixit Lapiro, they all belong to Kondengui, you see.

Had Mr. Biya declared his assets, we might not have reached the current wahala wherein political touts are parading up and down the country bleating Motions of Support like lost sheep. What has the president to say for himself? Did he take out 3.2 billion from the now dead SCB bank to build himself a country house with an attendant golf course? Did he dole out taxpayers money in the millions to his favourite Rose Croix sect? Did he, etc, etc? Sue CCFD, if you can!

One of Mr. Tchiroma’s dirges has been for Cameroonians to forget all these stolen funds and focus on creating wealth (la creation des richesses) so that itchy fingers can continue stealing. This is ludicrous!

Government’s newest gramophone says that the solution to the kyrie of problems faced by the private media in Cameroon is to provide more government subsidies. This is truly asinine. Government subsidies are never timely nor enough. Moreover such bribes violate the SIGMA DELTA CHI Code of Journalism ethics as prescribed by UNESCO. And this money goes into the deep pockets of the owners while workers suffer. The private press in Cameroon has just reached a collective bargaining agreement with government. To help the private press, government should respect its own engagements in the Convention Collective.

Government should also respect the treaty it signed with UNESCO as remove all taxes on media raw materials. And, government should begin respecting its own Law by handing out their due share of the AUDIO-VISUAL tax to private radio and television stations. The AUDIO-VISUAL tax was never intended for CRTV alone. Existing and future private radio and television stations ought to sue government. And, ministers (Biyiti and Tchiroma) should desist from scaring away investors in the media with their misuse of a dubious concept called public order.

Mr. Issa Tchiroma hails from the North of Cameroon. He passes around for an eminence grise of the northern barons. Mr. Tchiroma’s action creates acute wariness of the return of the Northern merchants. Cameroonians can live with a gramophone in the Ministry of Communications, but surely not a Taliban. Or is it a neo-Taliban?